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The FY 2009 Discretionary Budget Authority request for the NIH is $29.230 billion, equal to the FY 2008 appropriation. It provides a total Program Level in FY 2009 of $29.465 billion, the same as the FY 2008 Enacted Level (which includes the Type I Diabetes initiative [$150 million] and NIEHS Superfund [$78 million]. The FY 2009 Request maintains the AIDS research program at the FY 2008 level of $2.913 billion. In addition, NIH will provide $300 million to the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS.

On December 26, 2007, the President signed into law H.R. 2764 (the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008), the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, as P.L. 110-161. For the NIH, the Act provides $29.23 billion. This $29.23 billion reflects the 1.747 percent across-the-board cut to most accounts included in the law, including NIH. The Act includes a transfer of $295 million within NIH for the Global AIDS Fund (an increase in the transfer amount of $196 million above FY 2007), and also includes $111 million for the National Children’s Study, $504,420,000 for the Common Fund, $96,030,090 for research on chemical, radiological and nuclear countermeasures, $10,000,000 for the Director's Discretionary Fund, and $25,000,000 for the flexible research authority. Also included in this Act (in Division F, the Interior Appropriations bill) is $77,546,000 (after the across-the-board reduction) for NIEHS to carry out section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, and section 126(g) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986.

Updated 3/31/2008

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